Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Dan[iel H. Muir]
Transcription
Martinez Jan. 13, 1891.
Dear brother Dan.
Break it Break it – your silence I mean, you dumb sinner. You are busy you say I know you are but neither your patients, nor church nor state, man or beast, will suffer to any great extent should you take the time to write me a letter once a year. I wish you & your family a Happy New Year, & trust that as soon as you receive this greeting you will seize your pen & say “The same to your & yours”, however many of your patients may
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be suffering from gout, toothache rheumatism spinal meningitis etc & calling for the doctor. I have not had a line from you lo these many years, not even on business. Let me know how our account stands. John Reid has been trying to borrow two or three thousand dollars more this year to pay on that unlucky land of his & Sarah’s, & some others of the family are I fear in need of assistance also. I suppose you have heard of the death of Dr Strentzel my fatherinlaw. I have now to manage two large ranches, besides settling the estate as administrator & silence. Ever cordially your brother John Muir
[in margin: doing some literary work & therefore am s[illegible]ly busy. Now break that]
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1891 Jan 13
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Dan[iel H. Muir], 1891 Jan 13." (1891). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 49.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/49
Resource Identifier
muir07_0020-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0019
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections/fees-and-forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
